If, at a later time, additional components are added to the software using the original media, there is a risk of accidentally mixing older and updated components.

Users can mix and match components for use in procurement processes.

The term improperly mixes components of bacteraemia and sepsis, and has been abandoned as a concept.

But they have also said that they oppose mixing components of several plans.

Last year, the Virtual Socket Interface Alliance was formed to develop standards for mixing and matching virtual components.

The welfare officers tend to mix therapeutic components with investigatory ones.

They prefer to mix and match various components - a fang here, a cape or broomstick there.

The width of the mounting plates, as well as the depth and angle of the dovetails, can introduce such incompatibilities when mixing components from different brands.

But eventually, they said, it may be possible to design entirely new proteins by mixing and matching preferred components.